THIS is the shocking moment a popular TV and radio show presenter was thrown out of a cafe in Co Antrim after a confrontation with the owner.
Stephen Nolan shared a clip of the moment the owner of Belfast Breakfast Baps came out from behind the counter of the store on Woodstock Road and threw him out.
It came after the Northern Ireland-based cafe posted an image to their social media of a mobility scooter, alongside a rant about obesity.
On March 15 they posted to their Facebook page: “If you’re in one of these because you’re morbidly obese please know you are not disabled, you’re fat and probably not very useful.
“IT MOST DEFINITELY IS YOUR FAULT. Thyroid issues are workable and you are taking away resources from those who actually deserve not.
“How about park the mobility scooter and walk fatty and maybe even eventually run.“
Amid a string of backlash, comments on the post have been limited to just users who have been following the page for more than 24 hours.
Following the post, BBC star Stephen Nolan visited the cafe where he confronted owner Mark Young over the comments made.
However, Nolan was escorted out of the cafe as another unsuspecting customer who had just entered the premises looked on.
Belfast Breakfast Baps shared a video of the encounter to their own Facebook page earlier this morning.
They said: “When Nolan shows up to stir the pot he was put out. Wouldn’t want him about the place under any circumstances.”
However, the video sparked outrage on social media with people taking to the comments to defend the radio presenter.
One person wrote: “Place looks dead. Can you really afford to be turning customers away?”
Another added: “I am on Stephen Nolan’s side. Another Person dictating how people should live their lives.
“Open up a smoothie bar or a healthy food cafe. Or just keep your opinions to yourself.”
And a third said: “Can’t take the heat? Leave the kitchen.”
‘VERY TALKATIVE’
Stephen took to his own social media to share the video.
And speaking on his radio show The Nolan Show this morning he told his side of the encounter.
He said: “I approached him this morning, went into his shop.
“And I was thrown out of the shop as I tried to ask Mr Young some comments.
“He told one of my colleagues ‘Nolan’s two stone off a mobility scoter himself’. So he seems very talkative about obese people and Mr Young seems very talkative about defining who is disabled and who is not.”
Stephen added: “I said to him did he mind being recorded, he said no, he didn’t care.
“And then he said to me this morning he would escort me out of the shop himself, came under the counter and of course I left.”
